The Team
Zachary Lewy
CEO, CIO, Fund Principal
Member of the Executive Committee
Zachary Lewy
CEO, CIO, Fund Principal
Zach has over 25 years of executive experience in investment management and asset servicing. Zach founded Arrow Global in 2005 and serves as Group CEO and CIO of Arrow. Zach led the fundraising process for Arrow Credit Opportunities 1, the largest inaugural private credit fundraise globally in 2020, and the fourth largest private credit fundraise overall in Europe in 2020. Zach has supervised over 800 deals at Arrow and is a lead Principal in Arrow’s fund manager.
Prior to joining Arrow, he was an Officer of Sallie Mae, a Director at Vertex (the BPO division of United Utilities), and a Founder and Executive Director of 7C (a U.K. BPO company acquired by Vertex). Zach was previously the Chair of the UK Debt Buyers Association and was named an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2010.
He graduated from Princeton University with a BA in Economics with Honours and a Certificate in Applied and Computational Mathematics with Honours.
Monique O’Keefe
Executive Director, Governance & Risk, and Chair AGGCM Fund Manager
Member of the Executive Committee
Monique O’Keefe
Executive Director, Governance & Risk, and Chair AGGCM Fund Manager
Monique joined Arrow in 2019 as Chair of the Investment Manager of Arrow Credit Opportunities and is an Executive Director for Arrow Global Group. Monique leads on Governance for the fund, and with a wider executive responsibility covering Governance, Legal, Risk and Compliance for the wider Group.
Monique has over 25 years’ experience in finance, law and governance. She is a Non-Executive Director on two listed boards, and a select number of private funds. She also sits on the Board of Commissioners at the Jersey Financial Services Commission and is the co-founder of investment consultancy business, Kairos Wealth Limited. Prior to this, Monique was working in structured finance at Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs in London and New York, and previously as a structured finance lawyer at Clifford Chance in London.
Monique has a Bachelor of Law, a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Law from University of Queensland, Australia.
John Calvao
Fund Principal
Member of the Executive Committee
John Calvao
Fund Principal
John is Managing Principal of ACO1 Fund as well as accountable for Arrow’s Platforms, Portfolio Management Performance, Fund Operations, IT & Change. John’s role as Co-Head of the Fund follows from his two-year role as Italy Country Manager, creating and leading Arrow’s Italian strategy. During the same period, he played a key role in raising Arrow Credit Opportunities 1. Joining Arrow in 2010, John was Arrow’s Portugal Country Manager and Whitestar CEO.
Prior to that, John gained more than 15 years’ experience across various international capital market institutions, including as COO of MIAC Assurance Corporation, Head of Operations at SCA, which he joined after an independent consultant role overseeing the build out of the first independent, NPL servicing company in Portugal, and CIO at Clayton.
John began his career at MBIA
Andrew Grimditch
CFO
Member of the Executive Committee
Andrew Grimditch
CFO
As Chief Financial Officer Andrew is responsible for Financial Reporting and Control, Tax and Smart Finance, alongside his role as CFO, AGGCM. He is also accountable for Procurement, Premises & Facilities.
Prior to joining Arrow in 2019 as fund CFO Andrew was a FD at Electra Private Equity playing a key role insourcing and building all executive functions following the decision to move away from the external investment manager.
Before that Andrew held a number of roles at Thomas Cook, initially helping to stabilise the UK financial reporting processes before moving to be the finance lead in establishing a commercially focused stand-alone holiday service division. This followed a number of years at FCC Environment in Financial Controller and Business Development roles.
Andrew worked and trained at Deloitte for 11 years in assurance and advisory including transaction support work, secondments to clients and a period abroad. Andrew has a BA in Physics from Oxford University.
Hannah Culshaw
Director, AGG Capital Management
Hannah Culshaw
Director, AGG Capital Management
Hannah has over 15 years’ experience of alternative asset fund and corporate structures. She is based in Jersey and is the Chief Corporate Officer of the Saltgate Group with a focus on governance, risk and compliance. Hannah sits on the boards of a select portfolio of regulated private debt and real estate investment managers.
Hannah is a Chartered Governance Professional and a graduate of the University of Nottingham.
Richard Roberts
Principal, Head of Origination and M&A
Member of the Executive Committee
Richard Roberts
Principal, Head of Origination and M&A
Richard leads Origination and Corporate Development and is a Fund Principal for Arrow’s ACO Funds. He also responsible for Arrow’s M&A strategy alongside leading origination across the Platforms and Aggregation Vehicles.
Richard joined Arrow in 2017 after 19 years at GE Capital in Private Equity and M&A roles. He is responsible for Arrow Group Origination and M&A roles. He led the acquisitions of Mars, EI, Whitestar Italy, Drydens & Norfin platforms and has been heavily involved managing subsequent origination flows.
At his time at GE Capital, he was a senior member of the GE Capital M&A/Corporate Development team responsible for the sale of >$30b platform/portfolio sales in the 2012-2017 GE Capital disposal plan.
Richard is Chair of Marie Curie’s annual London Brain Game.
Samyuktha Rajagopal
General Counsel
Samyuktha Rajagopal
General Counsel
Samyuktha joined Arrow in 2019 and was previously a senior lawyer at Slaughter and May with a broad practice in general banking, corporate restructuring and distressed credit. Having initially come across to Arrow as a secondee to lead the legal aspects of the first fundraising, Sam stayed on at Arrow in her current role as General Counsel of the fund manager.
Sam leads our legal and governance function covering transactions, fundraising, governance, regulatory matters, and is involved in managing key service provider relationships for the funds.
Davide Stecchi
Managing Director, Underwriting
Member of the Executive Committee
Davide Stecchi
Managing Director, Underwriting
Davide leads our Underwriting team specialising in credit, NPL and special situation opportunities and is accountable for investment deal execution.
Davide has over 17 years financial services experience with a specialism in real estate investments across Europe. Prior to joining Arrow, Davide spent 7 years at Hudson Advisors, the asset management and underwriting platform of diversified asset manager Lone Star as head of Underwriting for Continental Europe on behalf of the RE Fund.
Before that, Davide covered several positions spanning from portfolio management to underwriting in Archon Group, the servicing and underwriting platform of distressed real estate and non-performing loans and subsidiary of Goldman Sachs.
Alexander Slinger
Director, Portfolio Management
Alexander Slinger
Director, Portfolio Management
Alex holds responsibility for post-acquisition investment management of assets within Arrow Global’s first fund, ‘Arrow Credit Opportunities 1’ (“ACO1”). Alex leads a team of highly skilled Portfolio Managers within FIM, who are responsible for controlling and optimising investment management projects and activities across the fund’s asset base.
Alex previously worked in Arrow’s investment team in the UK, having joined Arrow in 2016 from an Investment Banking and Consulting background. Alex was heavily involved in the raise and launch of Arrow’s first fund – including preparing significant amounts of Investor materials, and attending Fund investor pitches and DD meetings in the US and UK.
Alex has a MA (Distinction) and BA (1st Class, Hons) in Engineering from University of Cambridge, CIMA Cert BA, and is currently studying for CIMA Dip MA.
Marc Fuhrmann
Principal, Real Estate Investments
Member of the Executive Committee
Marc Fuhrmann
Principal, Real Estate Investments
As Principal for Real Estate, Marc is responsible for Arrow’s real estate strategy, including origination, underwriting, and portfolio management for real estate investments as well as oversight of Arrow’s real estate related platforms.
Prior to joining Arrow, Marc spent fourteen years at a large US private equity firm, most recently as a partner responsible for European real estate.
Throughout his career, Marc has been responsible for sourcing, executing, and managing investments across a wide range of real estate strategies in Europe and the US. This has included equity investments, non-performing loans, direct lending, and structured products.
Marc has an MBA from London Business School and an M.Sc. in Finance from the University of Texas at Dallas.
John Pellew
Principal, Distribution and Securitisation
John Pellew
Principal, Distribution and Securitisation
John brings a new strategic agenda of technological and financing innovation to the Arrow business. Paving the way to next generation investment products and sophisticated analytics.
John’s 30 years’ experience in business include 23 in Banking, Financial Services and Technology, having worked for CBA (Aust), Clydesdale Bank and RBS.
Prior to joining Arrow, John founded Othera Group Limited (in 2015), a fintech start-up, focused on the application of blockchain in loan origination, credit, servicing and the securitisation of financial digital assets. John has also lodged patent applications in the space of blockchain digital assets.
John has background in Accountancy with a BA in Accounting from the University of South Australia.
Claire Ayres
Head of Tax
Claire Ayres
Head of Tax
Claire joined Arrow in 2019 as the Head of Tax. With a background in law, Claire trained as a chartered accountant in the corporate tax department of PwC, specialising in private equity M&A and international tax. Claire has over 20 years’ experience working in international tax, across a variety of different industries.
Claire is responsible for the management of taxes across the fund in a tax efficient manner, maximising returns to investors whilst ensuring compliance with tax legislation across all territories. This covers all aspects of the fund management structure including governance, investor compliance and transaction and investment structuring.
Richard Husk
Investment Director
Richard Husk
Investment Director
Richard joined Arrow Global in 2013 and leads Arrow’s Fund Strategy and Capital Allocation team. He previously headed the Underwriting team and has a strong track record of valuing investments across multiple geographies and asset classes.
Richard is a chartered accountant (ACA), having worked in M&A Financial Advisory at KPMG for 7 years prior to joining Arrow. He graduated from Manchester University with a BSc in Physics (1st Class, Hons).
Andrew Fox
Investment Director
Andrew Fox
Investment Director
Andrew joined Arrow in 2014 and currently leads the Group’s aggregator strategies and portfolio purchases. Prior to this, he was a Senior Investment Manager at Arrow, leading the UK, Netherlands and Irish Underwriting team.
Before joining Arrow, Andrew held a number of roles at BAML (Merrill Lynch), including two years managing the Product Control team for the BAML Global Loans and SSG desk and three years running Model Governance across the business to maintain and assess all statistical models.
Silvia Gianfredi
Director, Real Estate
Silvia Gianfredi
Director, Real Estate
Silvia joined Arrow in 2022 to support the real estate strategy team. Prior to Arrow, she worked for Orion Capital Managers and Cerberus and has been responsible for executing and managing real estate investments across a wide range of asset classes throughout Europe. Silvia has a B.A. in Economics and Finance and an M.Sc. in Economics and Social Sciences from Bocconi University in Milan.
Chris Battig
Director, Origination
Chris Battig
Director, Origination
Chris joined Arrow in 2017 and is primarily responsible for M&A transaction execution including the acquisitions of Europa Investimenti, Norfin, Drydens, the stake in Maslow, and the disposal of Vesting Finance Belgium. He also played a key role as the cross-functional project lead for the launch of ACO1. Prior to joining Arrow, Chris spent 11 years at GE Capital where he held a number of finance and corporate development roles including working on ~€14B worth of portfolio and platform sales as part of the GE Capital exit plan.
Craig Hawthorne
Director, Real Estate and Underwriting
Craig Hawthorne
Director, Real Estate and Underwriting
Craig is an Director on the Investment team at Arrow Global. He is responsible for originating & managing investments across the portfolio. Before joining Arrow in 2019, Craig was a Director in the Corporate M&A team at General Electric. He holds a degree in Law & Economics from the University of Edinburgh.
Deniz Erkoc
Group Head of Risk
Deniz Erkoc
Group Head of Risk
Deniz is responsible for Arrow Group’s portfolio and enterprise risk management framework as the second line of defence across all jurisdictions. She joined Arrow Group in 2019 and has more than 17 years of experience in credit and risk.
Before joining Arrow, Deniz was a management consultant advising European banks on risk management matters for pre- and post-regulatory inspections. Prior to that, she spent many years advising on pan European NPL transactions.
Deniz started her career as a corporate banker in Turkey and has a MSc in Finance from London Business School.
Richard Chambers
Director, Underwriting
Richard Chambers
Director, Underwriting
Richard joined the Arrow Group in 2019 and is primarily responsible as the lead underwriiter on all our Italian credit and concordato investments through Europa Investimenti. Prior to joining Arrow, Richard spent approximately 15 years working in leveraged finance with HSBC and latterly RBS, providing debt into private equity transactions across a broad range of sectors.
Adam Croskery
Head of Debt Financing and Structuring
Adam Croskery
Head of Debt Financing and Structuring
At Arrow, we selectively apply leverage on an ex-post basis where we consider it in the interests of investors. Adam is responsible for sourcing, structuring and executing leverage opportunities. With in excess of 15 years of experience, prior to joining Arrow Adam was most recently Head of Capital Markets at a European fintech prior to which he was a director in Natixis’ asset finance and securitisation structuring team. Adam has also previously occupied roles at Credit Suisse and Standard & Poor’s.
Hanna Ahmed
Executive Assistant to CEO and Managing Principal, Fund Management
Hanna Ahmed
Executive Assistant to CEO and Managing Principal, Fund Management
Hanna joined Arrow in 2009 and has over 16 years of experience as an EA, she is responsible for the administrative support team that sit within the Fund Management division.
In previous roles, Hanna has supported managers at board level within the property sector and has also worked in private offices of high profile, high net worth individuals.
Jan Wade
Group Chief People Officer
Jan Wade
Group Chief People Officer
Jan is Chief People Officer leading the HR function for Arrow Global. Jan leads the Diversity and Inclusion strategy and is a member of Sustainability and ESG Forum.
Jan has more than 25 years commercial HR experience, the majority of which has been within Wealth Management, Financial Services and regulated environments, with a focus on organisational change, organisational design, strategic resourcing, talent, culture and engagement.
During her time at Arrow, Jan has lead HR strategy for local Platforms, Asset Management and Fund Management. Prior to joining Arrow, Jan has held senior HR leadership/Directorship positions including TD Bank, Bupa, Capita and Irwin Mitchell.
Mark Gollin
Managing Director and Global Head, Platforms
Mark Gollin
Managing Director and Global Head, Platforms
Mark has 30 years’ experience in investment banking and private equity, with a broad focus across capital markets, project/transaction/asset management, advisory services, fund raising, investor reporting and portfolio and management.
Before joining Arrow in 2021, Mark was a Managing Partner with Green Capital Energy, a development and acquisition start-up focused on the climate smart/renewable energy sector. Prior to this, he developed an international investment management and real estate acquisition business for Bayview Asset Management and under his leadership, Bayview’s platform grew into a global leader in European NPL acquisition, asset management and distressed debt resolution.
In his career, Mark has also worked for Cerberus, Chatsworth Securities, Apollo Global Management, Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns.